Flybe today announces the appointment of Luke Farajallah as Chief Operations Officer. Luke joins Flybe on 1 April, 2015 from Bond Offshore Helicopters where he has been the Managing Director since 2012.
Luke has over 25 years of aviation experience having spent 17 years with British Airways in various operational roles. After BA, Luke held senior operations roles with a number of airlines in UK and Mainland Europe including Wizz Air and easyJet.
He is replacing John Palmer, current Director of Operations, who is leaving Flybe at the end of March to take up a role with...
The London-based, speciality coffee house chain, Taylor St Baristas is the latest company to raise money from the crowd using a Crowdcube Mini-Bond. The Coffee Bond beat its £1.5m target, topping out at £1,864,000 and attracting 504 investors from Taylor St’s own customers as well as Crowdcube’s registered members.
Bondholders will receive 8% fixed rate interest per annum for the four year term of the bond, or can elect to have their dividend paid in coffee, in the form of store credit at the equivalent rate of 12% per annum.
A leading Devon accountancy firm has raised almost £10,000 for local and national charities.
Simpkins Edwards LLP, which has offices across the county in Exeter, Barnstaple, Okehampton, Heathfield, Holsworthy and Honiton, specialising in family owned businesses, raised a total of £9,616.11 for charitable causes during 2014.
A number of local charities benefited from the firm’s fundraising efforts, including FORCE Cancer Charity, Exeter Leukaemia Fund, Barnstaple Macmillan Cancer Support and North Devon Against Domestic Abuse. Amongst the national charities that received...
Members of the Exeter Chiefs rugby team turned out in force last night for a business forum hosted by The Rugby Players’ Association (RPA) at Sapphire Living Space in Topsham.
Organised as part of the Player Development Programme (PDP), players from the Senior and Academy squads met representatives from local industry sectors including Sapphire Spaces, Rhead Group and Bluesoup.
The Rugby Players’ Association represents the interests of professional rugby players with three areas of focus, player welfare, player development and The RPA’s Official Charity, Restart. The Player...
Premier Communication Electronics (PCE) has moved into new premises in Exeter to accommodate its business growth.
The much larger 0.8-acre site in Bittern Road is a short journey from the two-way radio and in-vehicle communications specialist’s former premises in Osprey Road, also on the Sowton Industrial Estate. The company move into its new premises yesterday, 2015.
Karen Langley, PCE’s CEO, said: “We outgrew our former premises as we needed more space to be able to accommodate the increasing amount of work we have been taking on from emergency services, public sector and...
Embracing Chaos will be the subject of a talk at this Friday's b2b Networking event at Sandy Park, the home of the Exeter Chiefs.
Experienced journalist, editor, media commentator and CEO of the award-winning PR and Marketing agency Astley Media, Marc Astley will discuss the threats and opportunities facing businesses as technolgy improves at an ever faster rate.
Marc said: "Research by Deloitte and Oxford University has forecast that one third of UK jobs will be automated by 2030 and that five million white collar jobs, including in accountancy and law, are at risk....
Bill Simmons has been appointed Chief Finance Officer (CFO) by leading equity crowdfunding platform, Crowdcube in the first of a number of strategic, senior level appointments made by the firm. Bill, who formerly held senior financial roles at groundbreaking online, digital and technology organisations, Ask.com, Myspace and Rated People, has been involved in a number of start-up and early stage businesses.
Joining the business late last year, Bill will focus on managing growth and ensuring money recently raised by the company in its own funding round (£3.8m via Balderton Capital...
ZERO, a leading renewables company based in Sowton, Exeter, has been shortlisted in a national Government-led competition to help drive down energy bills and boost low carbon heat supplies in the UK.
Energy and Climate Change Secretary, Ed Davey, officially unveiled the 17 winning entries at the Association for Decentralised Energy Parliamentary Reception on Tuesday, 20 January. The winners are spread across the country and will share a prize pool of £1 million to carry out feasibility studies, before up to 10 of the best projects bid for a share of £6 million to fully implement...
The Exeter team of leading property consultants JLL is expanding with the appointment of a new graduate surveyor.
Adelle Moore, who is originally from the South West, joins the hotels and hospitality team following a year at Knight Frank in London. She has recently moved back to the region to further her career with JLL.
Adelle has a keen interest in the leisure property market having obtained a degree in property and business from the University of the West of England. She will be supporting the senior team on a day-to-day basis with hotel agency, leisure and development...
InnovateWest invites ambitious entrepreneurs to Dartington Hall on 29th January 2014 to discover the radical business management methodology 'lean start-up'.
Ready! Fire! Aim! is an intense, hands-on, one-day workshop that demonstrates the strength of doing over deliberating and experimenting over estimating.
Utilising the latest thinking, local case studies and the power of peer-to-peer collaboration participants will acquire lean start-up skills, increase business awareness and take-away resources to use back at the coalface.
